[PATCH RESEND] nvme: fine-tune sending of first keep-alive

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Mon Nov 27 10:28:10 PST 2023


On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 08:56:59PM +0000, Mark O'Donovan wrote:
> Keep-alive commands are sent half-way through the kato period.
> This normally works well but fails when the keep-alive system is
> started when we are more than half way through the kato.
> This can happen on larger setups or due to host delays.
> With this change we now time the initial keep-alive command from
> the controller initialisation time, rather than the keep-alive
> mechanism activation time.

Thanks, applied to nvme-6.7.



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